![]() ![]() VIP Experience theme park and movie back lot tour.Despicable Me Minion Mayhem 3D action adventure ride.If you’re a movie theme park devotee (and even if you’re not) this is a holiday destination jam-packed with fun. Throw in a complimentary breakfast and an all-you-can-eat lunch and the advantages of the VIP experience become clear. They are spared delays after the show as hundreds of spectators attempt to exit the arena – instead as they are quietly ushered down a special fast exit. VIPs view the Water World show where performers execute a tidal wave of explosions and stunts based on the hit motion picture. News_Image_File: VIP Experience guests take a behind the scenes look at film sets. News_Image_File: VIP Experience guests take a behind-the-scenes look at movie sets including the airliner devastation from Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. They go behind the scenes to see the incredible “props department” containing more than 2 million movie prop items of every type, colour, genre and era.Īmong many others, guests will visit movie sets used in Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho, and more recent blockbuster, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. The all-day VIP tour takes in film and television sets with explanations of set design and TV and film history. Guests are steered through the famed studio’s movie back lot in small groups with knowledgeable guides. VIPs avoid the infamous ride queues – ushered to the front of the line at all the most popular rides – Transformers 3D, The Simpsons, Revenge of the Mummy and Jurassic Park. The VIP tickets don’t come cheap at $349 per person, but they make it possible to cram so much more into the day. The best way to see them all is via the VIP Experience. ![]() News_Image_File: The entrance to The Simpsons ride.Minion Mayhem is one of the avalanche of experiences at Universal Studios Hollywood theme park. News_Rich_Media: Take a sneak peak inside Universal Studios Hollywood's newest 3D ride - Despicable Me Minion Mayhem - it's an hilarious blast! Technology, movie know-how and humour are seamlessly combined.Īnd while the mind is completely fooled by the illusion of extreme motion, the knowledge remains that you’ve hardly moved at all.Īnd the word on the first riders’ lips as they headed straight back to the entrance for another turn: “Amazing”. The result is an irresistibly amusing and incredibly realistic ride, entirely faithful to the movie series. The ride is enhanced by water, wind and vibrations as participants soar, twist and pivot aboard the hydraulic vehicle. Giant compound curved screens surround them, onto which ultra-high definition 3D images are projected. The comedic narrative continues until finally doors open leading visitors to a room containing eight-person simulator vehicles where they are seated for the wild ride to come. News_Image_File: One of the Minions at the Despicable Me Minion Mayhem 3D ride launch. News_Image_File: Gru and his minions walk the yellow carpet at the launch of the Despicable Me Minion Mayhem ride. ![]() Gru and other much-loved characters (voiced by the movie’s original stars) speak to the riders via surrounding screens, inviting them to enter the next stage of the ride – Gru’s laboratory – where they too will be turned into Minions. Riders first enter Gru’s living room and are handed their 3D goggles (of course designed by Gru’s side-kick, Dr Nefario). Especially appealing is the way the ride draws visitors into the Despicable Me storyline. Theme park ride lovers and movie buffs alike will enjoy this latest addition to the line-up at Universal Studios Hollywood. Guests were urged to “embrace their inner Minion” as they road-tested the ride and its associated Super Silly Fun Land (also from the movie) with its array of crazily colourful slides, rides, and themed activities ![]() News_Image_File: The opening scenes at the launch of the Despicable Me Minion Mayhem. The world premiere of the new Minion Mayhem ride was held at Universal’s Hollywood theme park in Los Angeles this month, attended by Despicable Me’s endearing characters, Gru, his adorable daughters Margo, Edith and Agnes, and his army of cheeky and hilarious Minions. Universal Studios’ newest digital animation adventure, Despicable Me Minion Mayhem, is a phantasmagorical delight – filled with all the fun and irreverent humour so beautifully characterised in Universal’s Despicable Me animated movies. YOU’LL be zapped with “minion rays”, plummet over precipitous drops, and fly through a whirling vortex of 3D colour, light and action - all without leaving your comfortable seat in the ride simulation chamber. ![]()
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